Staff Storage Engineer- Ceph

At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem. 

We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. Our proprietary tech is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in keeping the internet open, accessible, and largely free. 

We process more than 550 billion real-time auctions every day (in comparison, Google processes 8.5 billion searches per day) with ultra-low latency. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure. This end-to-end infrastructure is designed to provide both stability and agility, enabling us to adapt quickly as the market evolves. 

At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values. 

About The Role:

We’re looking for a Staff Operations Engineer – Ceph Storage to support our storage team in the Cloud Platform division. Index’s scale spans the globe, our transactions happen 24x7 in our global data centers, and every second that passes millions of requests are evaluated across our exchange. In order to achieve our mission, global efficiency and reliability are absolutely key, as every millisecond quite literally counts in our business.

What We’re Looking For:

• Facilitator: It’s essential that you can relay information and ideas effectively both within and across different teams. While we place a huge premium on technical skill, we value just as much your ability to work with other people 
• Adaptable: Our industry moves fast and we need you to keep up and adapt. Acting as an Operations Engineer, you have the ability to prioritize tasks, often against competing scope and timelines 
• Technical: A strong foundation in Operations, and experience in solving complex problems and building solutions (including CI/CD, real-time monitoring, production issues, etc.) 
• Rigorous: We design and manage massive, globally distributed systems that handle billions of transactions a day - your approach and solutions need to be thorough, scalable and ironclad. 

Here’s What You’ll be Doing:

• Design, build and operate a highly scalable, performant and resilient storage layer that operates on a planet scale 
• Developing and maintaining automation to handle logging, monitoring and maintenance of the storage layer 
• Work with different technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Aerospike, Kafka etc to enhance and optimize existing systems. 
• Participate in complex security system designs and mentor junior teammates 
• Act as a senior contributor to the team who takes ownership of large projects and components 
• Champions improvements to processes and procedures for the team and for the division. 
• Influence the team’s direction and foster accountability, trust, and focus on goals. 
• Live the Index values and promote those internally and externally. 

Here's What You Need:

• Experience with building, maintaining and troubleshooting open-source distributed storage solutions such as Ceph and storage orchestrators such as Rook, in a highly automated environment and at scale. 
• Experience with IaC and configuration management tools such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform. 
• Experience with storage level replication technologies. 
• Strong experience with capacity planning, disaster recovery and monitoring 

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents  
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules  
• Competitive retirement matching plans  
• Equity packages  
• Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents  
• Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Commuter benefits and discounts, where available     
• Employee assistance program  
• Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance  
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program  
• Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events  
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning 
• A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment – learn more here

Equal employment opportunity

At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience. For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.

Accessibility for applicants with disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.  

If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process. 

Index Everywhere, Index Anywhere

Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be. 

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